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Recipients to be honored at a private reception hosted by producer, actress, writer Illeana Douglas October 17, 2011

LOS ANGELES (September 19, 2011) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA), in association with Variety and in partnership with Digital Hollywood, announced today their 2011 "Digital 25” honorees. The "Digital 25: Leaders in Emerging Entertainment” awards program recognizes 25 individuals or teams who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling. The 2011 recipients will be honored at an exclusive reception hosted by producer, actress and writer Illeana Douglas ("Easy to Assemble,” "Entourage”) on Monday, October 17th, as part of the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit at the Digital Hollywood Conference, at the Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Ray.

The 2011 "Digital 25”honorees, listed alphabetically by project then name are:

The Digital 25 program strives to acknowledge producers or creators that have enabled the production and/or distribution of digital entertainment in the areas of Internet (Broadband), Interactive Television, Visual & Digital Effects, Console & PC (Multi-User Online) Gaming, Home Entertainment, Mobile and Digital Animation. Past recipients include such innovators as Rishi Chandra and Vincent Dureau for Google TV; Reed Hastings for Netflix; Eddy Cue, Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs for the Apple iPad; James Cameron and Jon Landau for AVATAR; Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams for Twitter; and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley for YouTube; among many other visionaries.